UWG Celebrates 40 Years of Nurses: The University of West Georgia has been producing excellent nurses for the last 40 years. Many of those nurses were welcomed back to campus recently when the Tanner Health System School of Nursing held a reunion celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Class of 1976. Read more ...
UWG and WGTC Sign Transfer Articulation Agreement for Nursing Students: West Georgia Technical College students who complete the associate degree in nursing (ADN) can now transfer to the University of West Georgia’s bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) without losing any course credits thanks to a Transfer Articulation Agreement signed by both institutions. Read more ...
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel Speaks for the Tanner Health System School of Nursing’s Healthcare Speaker Series: Nationally renowned physician, healthcare speaker, and author Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel was the speaker at the University of West Georgia Tanner Health System School of Nursing’s Inaugural Healthcare Speaker Series held last week. Read more ...
Breaking the Mold: Nurses change lives, plain and simple. And University of West Georgia alumna and nurse Jamie Parker ’15 is no different. She has known that nursing was her calling since she was 15 years old, waiting on her mother to come out of open-heart surgery. Today, Parker works in the Advanced Wound Healing Center at Cartersville Medical Center and is living out more than her childhood dream. Not only is she changing the lives of her patients, but she’s also changing the lives of nurses.
It started with research Parker conducted for her final project before graduating with her master’s degree in nursing from the Tanner Health System School of Nursing. With 11 years of experience as a nurse, Parker often noticed that hospital nurses were quite hesitant to take care of ostomy patients. Intrigued by this apprehension, Parker began researching the self-confidence of nurses while doing ostomy education or performing ostomy care on a patient. Read more ...
